Need Help with some quality/focus issues

Ever since June my camera has been doing a really weird thing where it makes a buzzing sound and vibrates so bad that it blurs the image... I would upload an example, but photobucket seems to be down.

Anyways I thought I fixed it temporarily by shaking the camera right after starting up... It seems to stop the vibration, but lately I've been having quality issues. Something looks off with the focus. Anyone else have these problems?

The background should be blurry, but not the butterfly
(that's even after an unsharp mask filter)

Thanks for the reply. These were done with the auto focus on "group focus", but the manual focus doesn't seem to make the fuzziness or the vibration go away.

Usually when it vibrates, it does so immediatly after turning the camera on or after I'm done reviewing my pictures and then switch back to shooting mode (for some reason, it pulls in the lens when reviewing, then brings it back out when in camera mode.)

I haven't been able to figure out exactly what it is, other than it gets much worse in video mode than it does in auto mode. I have turned off the image stablization and tried an all manual mode. It helps but doesn't always get rid of the vibration completely. I think something is loose because I notice the lens sort of rattles when I am walking. I think something may be loose. I hope to upload a full size picture without compression later.

Your camera should not be buzzing and vibrating. It needs to go in for diagnosis and repair before the condition worsens. You could well be just driving up the repair bill by continuing to use the camera in its current state.

Your camera should not be buzzing and vibrating. It needs to go in for diagnosis and repair before the condition worsens. You could well be just driving up the repair bill by continuing to use the camera in its current state.

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I agree...take you camera in for service. That vibration isn't something you can fix yourself. Sounds like the image stabilization motors or gyros are going out.